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Person shall include, without limitation, all domestic and foreign corporations of any
<br />kind, all firms and companies (holding, joint stock, private, public, parent, pass-through,
<br />professional, operating, operating property, non-profit, subordinate and subsidiary),
<br />partnerships of every kind including but not limited to (general partnerships, limited
<br />partnerships, master limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability
<br />limited partnerships, professional partnerships, and publically traded partnerships), private
<br />trusts, Massachusetts business or common law trusts, real estate investment trusts,
<br />royalty trusts, estates, associations, syndicates, clubs, joint ventures, unincorporated
<br />business organizations, limited liability companies of every kind including but not limited to
<br />(sole member limited liability companies, multi member limited liability companies, non-
<br />profit limited liability companies, and series limited liability companies), cooperatives, all
<br />other types of business entities defined or authorized under federal and state laws,
<br />receivers, trustees, guardians or other representatives appointed by order of any court,
<br />and any natural individuals transacting and carrying on any business in the city other than
<br />as an employee.
<br />Transact and carry on means to repeat, or intend to repeat, or to continue and
<br />includes:
<br />(a) The maintaining, operating, managing or being in control of, or right to
<br />make use of directly or remotely, any office, store, warehouse, factory,
<br />establishment, premises, location or place:
<br />(1) Having one or more telephones listed for any business activity in
<br />any classified telephone directory or in the classified section of any
<br />consolidated telephone directory, or in any combined online
<br />directory or internet/web based listing service,
<br />(2) Having computers or other computing devices used to maintain one
<br />or more internet websites or webpages or maintaining internet/web
<br />based advertising,
<br />(3) Having in use in connection with any business one or more
<br />counters, desks, chairs, tables, filing cabinets, typewriters, adding
<br />or calculating machines, computers, servers, printers, scanners, fax
<br />machines or other articles of office equipment,
<br />(4) At, from, or in which any processing, manufacturing, supervising,
<br />administration, management, research, sales or sales promotion,
<br />peddling, solicitation, warehousing, distributing, routing, delivery,
<br />mail or package receipt, recycling, dispatching, billing, collection,
<br />accounting, computing, product development, software
<br />development, testing, storage, record-keeping or other activity is
<br />conducted in connection with any business,
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